# Siemens symbolic addressing removed in 8.3 Release **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition 8.3 Early Access\ **Created:** [September 17, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696 "2025-09-17T09:02:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![antonin\_sanitas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/antonin_sanitas/32/48568_2.png) [@antonin\_sanitas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/antonin_sanitas)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696/1 "2025-09-17T09:02:48Z")
Hello, I was trying last week the V8.3 early candidate with S7-1500 and symbolic addressing and it worked actually well. The option is in the picture below : ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/9/1997ac68078c059a95d5b5a56f7a18241e7447d4.png) As the V8.3.0 release was published yesterday, I tried it and I am not able to have the option of symbolic addressing on Siemens driver as you can see: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/6/16252bd15e9f8776acab3af99256b085b4524c21.png) Did I missed something or the symbolling addressing was removed in 8.3.0 ? If true, any one know if it will be available in next release and approximately when ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![adam.janowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@adam.janowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adam.janowski)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696/2 "2025-09-17T09:36:13Z")
They have added under new driver “Siemens Enhanced Driver”. It is reasonably priced but nice to know I am not the only one who was caught off guard by this. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/3/63411822eb9782fe772fe8693bbe119a2b598757.png) ---
**Author:** ![andrew.budaiev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/andrew.budaiev/32/72921_2.png) [@andrew.budaiev](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrew.budaiev)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696/3 "2025-09-17T09:50:18Z")
I also thought it would be included with the platform, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696/4 "2025-09-17T14:09:32Z")
We wish we could, but unfortunately some licensing issues are preventing us from doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Cody\_Morgan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@Cody\_Morgan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Cody_Morgan)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696/5 "2025-09-17T14:42:38Z")
Yes, without sharing too many details-- we were caught off guard by this internally as well. The licensing issues that Kathy mentioned came up pretty last minute, and they were largely out of Inductive Automation's hands. I was pretty eager for this driver to become the de-facto replacement for the older Siemens drivers. ---
**Author:** ![antonin\_sanitas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/antonin_sanitas/32/48568_2.png) [@antonin\_sanitas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/antonin_sanitas)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696/6 "2025-09-18T10:44:36Z")
Thanks everyone for the details! If someone looks for it, remember to activate it when installing gateway as it is not activated by default. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/f/0fa23a526935e8e41f3c833763d011dd9b01df58.png) ---
**Author:** ![Oladimeji\_Fatona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Oladimeji\_Fatona](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Oladimeji_Fatona)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696/7 "2025-11-08T10:03:56Z")
We are looking at using Ignition Edge for some work. Would we still need to purchase the additional Siemens Enhanced driver for edge as well or it’s somehow packaged into it ---
**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696/8 "2025-11-08T11:02:05Z")
Even more likely that it needs to be purchased additionally, as Edge is a stripped-back product. ---
**Author:** ![Cody\_Morgan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@Cody\_Morgan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Cody_Morgan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-symbolic-addressing-removed-in-8-3-release/110696/9 "2025-11-09T07:13:17Z")
You would need to purchase it separately.